This young lady was missing her dog for over a week. We tracked it with my SAR dogs to this field. I told her to just sit down and call for her dog. She couldn't see him but I knew he was in the field (tall grass) because of the way my sar dogs were acting. She sat down, called for him, his head popped up and he slowly made his way to her. Happy reunion.

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Why you shouldn't allow your dogs to chase wildlife.

 

 

• Keith Payne

  Emy, AWESOME testimonial for Harry and his crew! I had never heard that story before. Were there any newspaper articles about this? Where and when did it happen? Thanks.....I am a partner of Harry's on the east coast, (KP and Smokey Search Dog).......always looking to back Harry up any way that I can!

  

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• Emy O'Neill

  Keith Payne Bare with me, it’s lengthy, but it will all make sense.

  it happened in Tigard, Oregon. It was on the front page of the newspaper in late November of 1996. I check the police records from time to time to make sure the accomplice isn’t out on some appeal, because he didn’t do the killing. I wish they had charged the wife of the actual murderer too. She bought the gun for him because he had a felony and couldn’t own one. It was all premeditated.

  Saffa owned an auto body shop and this guy was his front end manager. Saffa knew that being Arab, he didn’t want to scare away potential customers from his shop because he was from the Middle East. First Gulf war had just happened, Americans weren’t too keen on people from the Middle East.

  Saffa had no clue this guy was a white supremacist who then hired a crew member for Saffa’s body work team. Shockingly (sarcasm) also racist against Arabs.

  Anyway, Saffa found out this asshole had been embezzling hundreds of thousands of dollars from his business. The racist evil greedy subhuman filth would call the insurance companies of said insurer and say “yea Mr. Allstate person, we pulled off the panel and found more damage. We can fix the damage we found for your customer that is not in the original estimate, but it will cost XXX amount of dollars.“ He would then have the company send the check directly to an account at a different bank using Professional Auto’s name and himself as the account signer. The “A” rate insurance companies never batted an eye. This went on years!

  Saffa knew something was off as he was starting to get strange and off putting phone calls from the said insurance company’s the POS was swindling. The fraud had finally been flagged. Saffa arranged to have a meeting, siting that something of great concern was troubling him and needed to be addressed promptly. I’m guessing these killers knew that there heist would eventually come to an end. They forged their plan.

  When this confrontation took place, the main suspect beat him to a bloody pulp, strangled him to death and to ensure he was dead, he shot him with a sawed off shotgun. As his accomplice was in on it he helped load his body and went and threw him off a cliff.

  Saffa fought for his life, because a window broke out of his car. That night they replaced the window and thought they had “cleaned” it.

  After weeks and weeks of getting nowhere with the Tigard police, I encouraged Saffa’s brother to call Harry. Harry came right out. We had grabbed a few scent items from his home. the first item (it was a shoe) the very first moment we’re talking seconds, his furbabies hit, squatted and peed.

  Harry turned to me and gave me a look. I froze, my face went white. He pulled me aside and said, “I know you you”. And I did know. He went on to say, “you have to keep your cool, don’t let on yet, let me do my work.”

  Backstory here. I’ve known Harry since I was 9, maybe 10 through my mom who worked for Representative Mary Alice Ford. Harry worked tirelessly in joint efforts with the legislature. There are so many faucets about what SAR does, and the value to our communities to have access to these extraordinary trained assets. To me, if I were to make a comparison in your field of work, it would be the Delta Force standard.

  Harry did (shocking, I know) take time to have fun in what no doubt has its hard days. I’m also certain it has its rewards, but I’ve heard some horrific stories. I can’t even imagine what you all have seen throughout your careers. I prefer the happy endings where loved ones and pets are reunited.

  Okay, moving on, lol.

  One of the fun things we would do is all go out looking for the annual Rose Festival Pin. Once a week the Oregonian (our main newspaper at the time) would post a clue as to the whereabouts of where the coveted Rose pin had been hidden. Portland hasn’t done it in years, but a lot of Portlanders loved this City of Roses tradition. It wasn’t even about the prize to Harry. It was the adventure, putting all the clues together and the challenge of solving the mystery. I think that’s what makes Harry so special, so unique and damn good at his trade.

  Anyway, during our group outings, Harry would share the different techniques on how he trains his dogs and alert signals, etc and so forth. I was so curious and in awe that you could train a dog to do these incredible things. I still to this day won’t leave anyone to watch our house and furbabies. If I can’t bring them to a vacation home? I’ll find one that will. And I always tell my friends and family, call him immediately. Don’t wait for the police. They will file a missing person report and tell you to wait to see if I decided to just get away for a bit on my own.

  So there you have it!

  Long summary of the events I know I’m sure I made some typos and grammar errors, I apologize, I can’t find my readers! Haha

  Harry rules!!!!

 

Megan Closson

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International K9 Search and Rescue Services

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54 minutes ago

DO NOT USE THIS SERVICE!! Harry Oakes is a scam artist! He wanted to charge my family $200/hour to send out his K9s when we didn't even have a starting point! He then went on social media to comment on news outlets that my family is refusing K9 searches. This then lead people to get suspicious of us, like WE were the ones who made my grandfather go missing. He then took it upon himself to trash my family on his personal Facebook page. If you don't like his service, he will gaslight you into thinking you are the issue. Just take a look at how he replies to some of the negative Yelp comments. He manipulates people by telling them law enforcement does the same stuff he does. WRONG! Sheriffs and police departments have told my family to stay FAR AWAY from this guy, because he is just in it for money, he preys on vulnerable families. STAY FAR AWAY!!!

 

Response.

 

Shame on Megan.

Obviously, she knows nothing about my credibility.

The credibility I’ve built in the courtroom and outside the courtroom through my successful missions over the last 49 years.

She never bitched or complained when I donated my services as a volunteer searcher with the Multnomah County Sheriff’s office from 1972-1974. While a member of US Army Military Police 1974-1977. While I worked in Law enforcement as a regular police officer, and reserved deputy from 1977 through 1994.

While I worked as a K9 Consultant for Clark Co SO for Sheriff’ Kanakoha.

While I donated my services and skills while an active member of Portland Mountain Rescue and Mountain Wilderness Search Dogs. 1986-1997. Nor have you mentioned my 25 years of donating my services to the American Red Cross Oregon Trail chapter disaster services.

Nor have you complained when I volunteered my skills and time on the Back Country ski patrol for Mt Hood, and Mt St Helens, Wa.

What about the hundreds of victims I’ve found alive and dead during all these years? Not one mention about that?

I didn’t become a paid private contractor in Sar until I had been in SAR for 27 years volunteering.

And if you did your homework/research you would have found it was because the Ore. Dept of Justice asked me to become a private contractor so the sheriff’s office couldn’t have any control my work as a paid professional. After I testified in the Ore. Legislature on HB 3093 against Klamath County and the OSSA. When KCSO by their lack of actions cause the deaths of two innocent children and OSSA covered it all up.

I’m still used and supported by the state police, many other govt agencies and of course private families who want their loved ones to be found by someone like me who has now 49 years experience.

Everyone of my clients gets a contract which spells out what I can and can’t do for them. There is absolutely no scamming of anyone. If I were a scam artists as you falsely claim, I would have been shut down many years ago.

This contract that I provide for my clients, protects the client as well as my business. Out of 14,335 cases, I’ve been wrong 4 times on my conclusions. What business that has helped over 14,300 clients can say that? That’s less then .0002%. That along with being hired by and being an advisor to, SAR teams such as the St Croix USVI, Sitka SAR dogs, Turkish K9 SAR, NATO, UK SAR, all have been successful due to my professional ethics and training.

Just because your paid support folks (Local law enforcement and volunteers) have all failed to find her grandfather, doesn’t give her the right to slander me or my business. She has no one to blame about her grandfather not being found but herself and her family for not bringing in a skilled experience paid professional as myself. I have thousands of references who speak highly of my skills and documentation.

 

Ask Ashley Pond and Miranda Gaddis’ mothers’ who found their daughters after being murdered and concealed by Ward Weaver in Ore. City in 2002. This after the police and FBI both went public after their searches for the girls and told everyone the girls “Were not on Ward’s property”. They lied and we told the truth.

Respectfully

Mr. Harry Oakes

K9 SAR Coordinator

International K9 Search and Rescue Services

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when someone disappears.

 Tuolumne Coty Sheriff

Good evening,

The criminal investigations division of the Sheriff’s Office conducted an investigation regarding the reported disappearance of John Stivers. During the course of this investigation, detectives authored several search warrants and collected evidence relevant to the case.

Our investigation revealed facts that eliminate suspicion of foul play, or criminal activity.

We understand this incident has deeply affected our community and we empathize with the passion everyone has shown towards the effort to locate Mr. Stivers. Out of respect for the Stivers family and the privacy of John Stivers, no further information will be released.

John Stivers will remain in the missing persons database at the request of the Stivers family.

Our sincerest gratitude to the family and friends of John Stivers for your patience through the course of this investigation.

Message from Harry Oakes K9 SAR coordinator.

This is why when people contact me regarding a missing person, I strongly suggest before a search is launched to establish whether this is a willful disappearance, suicide, kidnapping, or a lost person due to terrain, physical issues, mental health issues.

By going through their cell phone records, financial records, home/business computer chats, texts, calls and emails the SAR Coordinator/ sheriff's office / investigator can review the files for the last 30 days and see if there is a pattern, or foul play.

We can also determine if someone else is using the person's bank account atm cards, etc. (security cameras and transaction locations).

Then ping his/her cell phone and determine area last used. Also calls in/out and texts in / out. This shows us a lot of information regarding patterns.

If it looks normal, then through interviews with friends, family, co workers, witnesses you can establish what is really going on here.

When a person leaves his/her family on purpose you must try to determine if they are just getting away for a while to sort stuff out, going out to harm themselves or others, or are they suffering from medical issues that need to be addressed right away.

Once this is done, then bring in a forensic scent evidence dog team to determine if foul play has occurred at the pls. (place last seen).

If no foul play and once the vehicle has been found, then it's forensic time.

Did the person jump to his/her death, over dose on meds, shoot themselves, hang themselves, drown themselves?

Did they get into another vehicle and start a life with someone else?

All these questions must be answered.

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